Not crazy about all the dead animals all over the place.

Why all the dead animals? Ick. I agree with suzy8track. Horrible.

Sad. I hate to see animals exploited like this.

Yuck. I wouldn't want to sleep there.

A bunch of animal lovers here! I love it. We have a ♥heart♥! lol

Get rid of all the bad feng shui dead stuff, and it's not half bad.

I agree. Nothing makes me want to leave a place faster than the heads or body parts of animals passed off as "style". So unnecessary.

Give me a dead animal on the wall over a live cat in the home any day!

I think hunting is great! Yum!

love it!

hate it with all my heart.

besides the cruelty behind killing animals for display, it's just downright ugly.

that is a great looking cabin, taxidermy and all.

This looks like the cabin of a serial killer. Those antlers and the skin rug are so creepy and gross.

This place is excellent.
While perhaps not true in this case, you guys do realize that many taxidermists only use animals that are already dead?
I also find it a bit odd that when a sheepskin or cowskin rug is shown in post, very rarely is a word of protest spoken. You know the animal doesn't grow a new set of skin and frolic back into the pasture, right?

cb ...

for crying out loud, man, dead animals that find their way to a taxidermist were usually killed because some fool wants them stuffed!

you do have a point about sheep and cowskin though -- it reviles me as much as a zebra rug, mounted head or full-on posed Grizzly.

call me weird; i like my animals living (and own no fur, leather, hooves, cuts of meat or other body parts.)

I could do without the remnants of dead animals. Could never sleep there.

Check my comments, dude. I always comment about the leather and sheepskins. What if he had human heads and stuffed children around the cabin?

With the exception of the pheasant, I don't see any taxidermy. I wonder how many of the critics here have a leather Eames Chair, or perhaps covet one - both the animal and designer are dead.

The bedroom with all that wood paneling and shades of brown is cool. I'd get rid of all the antlers (they look dreadful) and hang a few green landscapes to ad color.

Creepy would not be able sleep under all those antlers.
Not good at all.

the pine floor is so creepy. those poor trees! dead wood is so wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love the green wall. But I couldn't live with the antlers.

For the most part I agree with the anti-trophy camp, but I might mention that antlers solo or attached to a skull (i.e. not a taxidermied head) were probably found or naturally occurring. I myself was the proud finder of a large elk antler once, though I wasn't proud enough of it to take it home to the city with me - I left it in the family cabin in the mountains to serve as a hat rack. I do have a couple leather chairs, though, which isn't much different.

Never liked the knottiy pine camp look, trophys, or skins. (I don't mind leather since it's a byproduct of the meat industry and I haven't gone vegetarian yet, although I do try not to think about it much, probably meaning I should consider going that route...)

Rick Roberts,

I think a few human heads would be the best statement an animal lover could make. It would certainly show what the whole grisely idea of killing is all about.

However, I have a Long Horn head on my wall, a gift that I was told was found in the Texas desert. It was bought at a flea market. Would that be okay?

Aside from the animal trophies this is an elegant looking cabin.

So, I'm not commenting on the taxidermy. Otherwise, I really like it. I think it would be cozier with some sort of window treatments, though.

I had a wolf jaw that my father found while filming in Alaska. Did displaying that make me cruel and disgusting?

If one is at peace with eating meat I see no problems with using leather or other animal bits in one's home.

It's amazes me reading such dribble. Almost every comment above so far is quite worthless. The owner of the cabin designed/decorated to their tastes. They should be commended for putting together a cohesive design, that is unique to their taste and style, not insulted for their use of animal remains.

holland: You've never owned fur, leather or any animal products? Really?

The owner should be praised for their creativity. I say good job, keep designing as you see fit.

-frustrated architect

re: antlers being found
It's true, however, if you are REALLY going to be a staunch environmentalist, remember that other creatures feed on antlers that have been shed. Even by taking shed antlers, you are disturbing the eco-system.
FYI.
I do love the way they look, though!

I love that one room is painted - it makes a great contrast to the wood paneling.

Taxidermied animals are often used in wilderness centers and natural history museums as teaching aids, and most of the time they are either donated from estates or made from found dead animals. The natural history museum at my college had a few hundred specimens, all of which were found dead and then taxidermied. It can actually be a useful tool for raising environmental awareness when done right, and is not solely the creation of truck drivin', ignorant game hunters.

That said, I imagine there is not a human on earth (nor an animal for that matter) who has not used, exploited, or displaced another creature simply by living. If an individual had a green home and next to no carbon footprint but chose to display some antlers, I should hope people would not judge them too harshly.

@really?, if you happen to check back:

sure, I used to own leather and once ate animals. don't recall every having fur. but in '73 i went veg strictly for ethical reasons, gave away my leather items and never looked back.

when i buy a vehicle, i get fabric seats; don't use stuff that contains animal oils; that kind of thing. over the years living a veg life has gotten way easier, not just because i learned what to avoid, but because alternatives have really bloomed.

if you were to visit me in my home, i don't think you'd notice my veg lifestyle, at least, not till the third or fourth meatless meal -!

The antler wall above the bed is terrible.

"if you were to visit me in my home, i don't think you'd notice my veg lifestyle, at least, not till the third or fourth meatless meal -! "

Maybe not visually, holland, but your 'attitude' comes through loud and clear.

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=skins062&Player=wm

I grew up around houses with trophies, hunting paraphernalia, and "country" appointments, too. I was given fur, but could not seem to wear it. I voluntarily stopped eating meat but was forced to when ill. Now veg to about 85-90% of the time. Want to be fully veg, perhaps raw diet. But I am not doctinaire. It's simply fact: animals are facing big problems from humans. This cabin is lovely, I think, and AT is a design site. But the animals therein cannot be ignored. Without judging the owner/designer, one can say, "ouch."

Oprah quotes Maya Angelou a lot. "When you know better, you do better." These days, you cannot NOT know the suffering of these animals.